Jawed Naqvi

An embarrassment for nationalist politicians who were raised on hating Muslims is that they need to court Muslim countries. Updated 18 Jan, 2022 08:12am

The BJP grabbed Karnataka & Madhya Pradesh not by winning, leave alone charisma. It just subverted opposition alliances to topple Updated 11 Jan, 2022 07:43am

Hindutva fears harmony. Period. It thrives on parochial strife. Updated 04 Jan, 2022 07:54am

Price of the Modi Years is an archival work with detailed notes and accounts of Modi’s shortcomings against core challenges. Updated 28 Dec, 2021 07:52am

For countries like the US, there is a mismatch between the practice of human rights at home and their pursuit abroad. Updated 21 Dec, 2021 07:25am

The actor-cum-public intellectual valiantly fought the fight for India’s cultural soul and for its progressive democracy. Updated 14 Dec, 2021 08:35am

The targeting of Amnesty’s India operations presaged an emboldened assault on human rights groups. Updated 07 Dec, 2021 07:36am

Notion of ‘Akhand Bharat’ — Sanskritised India built on myth than history — involving Pakistan is a soufflé that refuses to rise. Updated 30 Nov, 2021 07:38am

The farmers — hundreds of thousands of them — stuck to their guns to extract the promise of repeal from Modi. Published 23 Nov, 2021 07:18am

The most important reason in today’s context to tone down poorly timed criticism of Savarkar flows from a pragmatic perspective. Updated 16 Nov, 2021 08:07am

Threat of mass annihilation with nuclear weapons has been seldom discussed by powers that own them and also threaten to use them. Updated 09 Nov, 2021 08:00am

Aryan should also persuade his father to shun his needless silence on the malaise afflicting the once-secular Indian democracy. Updated 02 Nov, 2021 07:48am

Water shortages, drought, floods or landslides and tsunamis are not constrained by national boundaries. Updated 26 Oct, 2021 07:51am

It remains the only party with a presence in every Indian state and makes it best equipped to effect the required radical change. Updated 19 Oct, 2021 07:44am

One needs to assess a truer reality by seeing how Rahul Gandhi’s great-grandfather was and is still perceived by the same critics. Updated 12 Oct, 2021 11:39am

What lies ahead in the stand-off between the US-led alliance and a resurgent China is too early to tell. Updated 05 Oct, 2021 08:35am

Biden’s shibboleths on democracy or world peace or the environment are just that — vacuous shibboleths. Updated 28 Sep, 2021 08:06am

Inspired by a slogan first raised by Pakistani women, she came up with her own poem based on its spirit. Updated 26 Sep, 2021 08:49am

Where does this turn of events leave the rest of the world? Updated 21 Sep, 2021 08:55am

Hinduism as we know it today has been in ferment since its inception. Published 14 Sep, 2021 07:24am